So with the announcement of Dynasty warriors 8: Empires, I thought I'd create this thread to feed on the scraps on information we can gather. So far I've seen, customisable flags and soldiers and a more elaborate marriage system.

The Empires entries in the series are my personal favourites and I can't wait until Autumn!

So Xun Yu is confirmed... on the relationships I have heard rumours of marriages and randomly generated chikdren, not sure how true that is. Marriages were of course present in previous iterations, I'm hard pushed to imagine children being in the game in any capacity (other than the historically authentic ones).

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Marriages were somehow present, but in a way that let Sun Ce marry his sister. (At least that's the way it is in DW 6 Empires)Also you couldn't set relationships in the edit section, that's what I mean...But I think everyone who played ROTK XI is missing all those cool and complex features from it's edit section.

Also another feature I wish for: Creating an old looking woman in Edit Mode

Yeah it was only included in a rudimentary fashion, it has been basically like a 'best friend' mechanic, rather than anything interesting and dynamic, as it could be.

I've never played ROTK before, I enjoy creating alternate history, in games such as total war and paradox titles; so it would be good to create a family that had an impact on three kingdoms, rather than just one character.

Jordan wrote:I'm not sure what compelled Koei to add two rape victims of Zhang Fei to Shu-Han.

I know about Xiahou Yuan's daughter, but who's the other one?

Yan Yan.

I am not really happy with either of the Shu-Han inclusions. I can see how they'd do something with Xiahou Whatever and Xiahou Ba, maybe, but my problem with that is that I don't like DW's Xiahou Ba. I do love Xiahou Yuan in DW but I doubt he''ll have any part in Xiahou Whatever's story. He has no part in Xiahou Ba's story either despite being referenced a lot.

I never understood the love for Yan Yan. He was some officer who got beaten by Zhang Fei and then never did anything else. I like the idea of non-generics for Liu Bei to fight during his battles against Liu Zhang, but I don't really see what other purpose Yan Yan serves.

That all being said, these are not confirmed DW 8: Empires characters. However, if they're appearing on this Android/iWhatever game they'll probably be seen in future DWs, I reckon. This may or may not include DW8: Empires.